House of Gucci Quicktake: Committed Performances, Tonally At Odds with Itself, & Way Too Long Heading into the fall, House of Gucci was one of award season’s most buzzworthy contenders. Director Ridley Scott’s Oscar hopeful has the perfect combination of elements to grab moviegoers and awards voters’ attention. House of Gucci features a star-studded cast, …
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The Observers Quicktake: Expert Interviewees, Covers Plenty of Ground, Could Use Alternative Perspectives on the Topic It’s been 80 years since UFOs invaded popular culture. And after all these decades, they’re still on our minds in a big way. UFOs and aliens appear in our most popular movies, literature, and video games. So what is …
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Quicktake: Delightful Cast, Witty Script, Intensely Nostalgic How strange is it that we haven’t had a proper Ghostbusters sequel since 1989? We’re up to 26 Marvel movies, and the MCU only kicked off in 2008. Since Ghostbusters II hit theatres, there have been eight Star Wars movies, ten Harry Potter titles, and three …
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Don’t Say Its Name Quicktake: Great Performances, Atmospheric, Can’t Quite Stick the Landing As a horror movie diehard, I’ll be the first to admit that the genre is wildly inconsistent. Taking a flyer on an under-the-radar film is rewarding, at times. But most often, these gambles don’t pay off, and I end up sitting through …
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The Medium Quicktake: Disturbing, Atmospheric, and Way Too Long No movie this year had me all in and then all out like The Medium. As much as I enjoyed the film early on, I wanted to jump ship 90-minutes in. Banjong Pisanthanakun’s supernatural tale has plenty going for it, so I see why some …
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The latest Dope Black Movies review covers Candyman, a haunting follow-up to the 1992 horror classic of the same name. Writer-director Nia DaCosta teams up with writer-producer Jordan Peele to deliver a gripping horror thriller and hard-hitting social commentary. Candyman’s knockout cast features Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen, Aquaman), Teyonah Parris (WandaVision, Dear White People), Colman …
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Army of Thieves arrived on Netflix on October 28, 2021. In the leadup to the Army of the Dead prequel’s release Netflix sent the film’s cast out on a virtual press tour. I interviewed the film’s director and star Matthias Schweighöfer, as well as his castmates Guz Khan, and Stuart Martin on behalf of That …
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The McPherson Tape: Quicktake: Creepy, Lo-fi, Slow-Burn Horror You can’t discuss Dean Alioto’s cult classic, The McPherson Tape, aka U.F.O. Abduction, without talking about the wild story surrounding it. But first, some details about the movie. The McPherson Tape Video Review The McPherson Tape is a lean, mean found footage horror movie about an alien …
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